Some of my favorites include Sinatra singing ABBA's Dancing Queen [1], six presidents rapping the NWA classic [2], and Milton Friedman rapping 50's P.I.M.P. [3]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_w4KGifug
Note I said "great examples of what's possible today" not "great examples of JFK recording NWA's Fuck the Police".
If you're going to try to insult someone, own it and leave off the smiley. Don't hide behind that weak passive aggressiveness.
For what its worth, I don’t think the OP was intending to be insulting; this seemed more like an inside joke designed to foster camaraderie.
Probably for the same reason I disliked the Sinatra content so much, too obviously fake.
The whole of the parent comment was that single remark I quoted, before they edited the comment.
They were intending to lob a passive aggressive insult on the lighter side. They didn't like my comment, so they fired off a shot about my comment being equivalent to a questionably human, possibly mediocre GPT3 text.
I don't mind that sort of mild insult in response, I just prefer it without the unnecessary facade of the smiley.
One of those readings is just musing about the state of all this "almost there" tech, the other is just randomly insulting someone's writing.
That does seem like pretty dangerous ambiguity. Akiselev maybe wrote a blue gold dress of comments where one reading is mean-spirited. I doubt it was intentional, but could have been clearer.
Taking 'Six U.S. Presidents read "Fuck Tha Police" by N.W.A.' I certainly agree there are long sections where the synthesis is obvious - stilted sounding, overlong pauses between words, changes in tone in the middle of a sentence, background noises / changing audio quality accompanying different words and speakers, and so on.
But there are sections where it manages to generate several words in a row without those problems. Like at 23 seconds, the section "so help your black ass? / Ya goddamn right / Well, won't you tell everybody what the fuck you gotta say?" sounds pretty realistic.
If you blame the bad sections on lack of training data for older presidents, take the good sections as proof of what's possible, and imagine the entire recording will be that good in 3-5 years, then it's an impressive demo.
This one (JFK reading the Rick & Morty copypasta) strikes me as much more convincing however: